Child Psychology Diploma For R699 with Online Academies (Up to 81%)

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Nationally recognised online course for beginners

Syllabus covering two modules of ten units each, with assessment after each

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Learning about the way children think, budding psychologists can discover how infants' minds develop, from language acquisition to comprehending that Santa isn't real. This online course is designed to ground beginners in the subject and as such, is split into two modules: major developmental issues and the child as an individual. With a multiple choice assessment at the end of each module and a final test, students can leave the course with a level 4 certificate and a nationally recognised award that they can build on. In addition there are unlimited re-sits of the tests, ensuring some truth in the old adage that practice makes perfect.

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Syllabus

Module One: Major Developmental Issues

Unit One: The First Year of Life

Infant reflexes; Social development during the first year of life including the social smile and onset of fear of strangers.

Maternal deprivation; Implications of theories of attachment and maternal deprivation when placing children with surrogates.

Unit Four: The Home, Family and School

Group vs family care and studies of effects of maternal employment and father absent families; Importance of peers and siblings.

Unit Five: Basic Principles of Research Methods

Nature and purpose of research, what is an experiment, supporting and refuting hypotheses, independent and dependent variables, control of variables, standardised instructions and procedures, methods of sampling, design of investigations.

Unit Six: The Development of Visual Perception

Introduction to the nature/nurture debate on visual perception; Fantz - form perception; Gibson and Walk - depth perception; how the physiology of the human visual system helps us judge depth and distance; Bower - size constancy; animal experiments on early sensory deprivation.

Unit Seven: The Development of Language and Communication

Development of non-verbal communication in humans, gestures etc; comparisons with non-human primates; outline of language development in humans; including naturalistic observational in humans; including naturalistic observational studies and criticisms of these; Innate and reinforcement theories.

Unit Eight: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing

Definitions of intelligence; mental age and IQ; Tests of intelligence; Advantages and disadvantages of IQ testing.

Unit Nine: The Nature/Nurture Debate in the Study of Intelligence

Twins studies; stability of IQ; Are early experiences decisive for later development?

Piaget's theory of cognitive development; including studies of egocentrism and criticisms of his work.

Unit Twelve: Learning Theory - How Behaviour is Acquired

Learning and conditioning - classical conditioning and operant conditioning; including explanations of extinction, discrimination and generalisation; positive and negative reinforcement; Social Learning Theory and criticisms.

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